Chemistry 101

[filkertom]

Jayzus H. Christ on a bicycle.

Even if you completely buy into everything the Bush Administration has ever said about terrorism, this is just insanely stupid and incompetent. And, if you don't... it's right in line with every other damn thing.

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

I was considering this. Sure, blowing up a plane inflight (or 10!) would be a mighty powerful act. But its a very hard thing to do. The cabin is probably the worst place to use explosives to try and bring the plane down. The skin is at its thinnest, which would blow out taking most of the blast. Little of the major structure is close enough to PROBABLY damage it with any guarentee of downing the plane.

My thought is don't destroy the plane, poof and its gone over the water. Destroy the people. Leave the plane and pilots intact to bring in a plane full of corpses.. imagine that image on CNN.

It would be much easier to smuggle chemicals aboard that could gas or burn the pax.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

The most vulnerable point on the plane has nothing to do with the airframe - there are soft, squishy people in that cockpit, and the plane goes down without them. Cockpit doors are reinforced against small-arms fire, but a good explosive against that door probably still spells doom for the plane....

Though, of course, you are correct. Turning the thing into a flying coffin would probably be extremely effective.